Archive for September, 2009

More aphids, ants, and their friends

Friday, September 25th, 2009

In real life, this is about a square centimeter…

Ants actually farm aphids, like cows, for the "honeydew" they produce; in reality, the honeydew is nothing more than high-sugar aphid poop.

Ants actually farm aphids, like cows, for the 'honeydew' they produce; in reality, the honeydew is nothing more than high-sugar aphid poop.

Fixing VLC and Matroska .MKV files on Snow Leopard (Mac OS/X 10.6)

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Warning: Boring google food article.

Your problem:

Your Matroshka files played fine in Mac OS/X 10.5, but then you updated to Snow Leopard, and now you get tons of error messages, and they may (or may not) play.

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Still Life

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

I like California. We have nice vegetables. This will be part of my dinner tonight.

Pepper Family Portrait

Pepper Family Portrait

Update! Pepper family missing and presumed eaten!

Last known photo of pepper family.

Last known photo of pepper family.

The little red pepper and the light yellow Hungarian pepper next to it were so sweet, they would have been overpowered in the stir fry, so I made tsukemono (Japanese quick pickles) out of them. That’s what’s on the plate to the right.